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FTSE 100 companies have bigger pensions deficits than their business couzins in the US.
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The HR director at the Department of Health has accepted that not all hospital trusts will implement the Agenda for Change pay system by the September deadline.
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Agilent Technologies, the world’s biggest manufacturer of testing equipment, is to eliminate thousands of jobs as part of a restructuring plan to cut costs by $450m (£249m)
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Mark Fisher, business strategy director of Jobcentre Plus, will succeed Christopher Duff as the new chief executive of the Sector Skills Development Agency (SSDA), it was announced today
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A breakdown in talks has led to 5,500 broadcast staff in Canada being locked out of their workplace.
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Talks aimed at resolving the dispute which left thousands of British Airways passengers stranded last week have made "little progress"
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Union to ensure insurer gives workers fair hearing by taking it to tribunal.
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British Airways (BA) is planning to cut up to 15% of its baggage handling staff - the group of workers who staged last week’s wildcat strikes at Heathrow – according to newspaper reports
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Six out of 10 employees working in the commercial sector believe that the not-for-profit sector has shed its “cardigan brigade” label
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Recruitment shortages and a lack of skills in the construction industry are continuing to blight companies
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UK business cannot hope to tackle the ‘onslaught’ from the Far East if more students cannot be persuaded to study science and foreign languages, according to the CBI
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The catering firm at the centre of the travel chaos at Heathrow airport considered provoking strikes last year to replace staff with cheaper labour, a leaked memo reveals
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Rick Haythornthwaite, former chief executive of the engineering group Invensys, has been appointed to head up the government's Better Regulation Commission.
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British Gas, which plans to transfer 2,000 jobs to India in a bid to save up to £30m pounds annually,...